Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...They've lost a lot and I think they're just trying to get some back," Conway says, adding it could also be a sign that insiders don't think the market will continue to rally the way it has recently. "It's a good time for anybody who's taken a little bit of a hit in the last two years, even insiders. They're seeing an opportunity here where the market has given them some positive returns and they're going to take advantage of that...
...Other services are on the market that detect whether a cell phone is in motion using GPS technology and shut off texting services accordingly. But whether the product comes in the form of software on the phone or a special car key that communicates with the phone via Bluetooth, these products are unreliable, and determined teens would find a way to subvert such electronic safeguards...
...much for change. In the wake of the mortgage-market fiasco, in which get-rich-quick schemes alchemized in the cubicles and conference rooms of Broad Street translated into a meltdown of the international financial system, bankers have been looking for new markets to tap. But despite all talk of a new approach to the future of finance, the reality is that the most recent innovations are only geared to resurrect the same old broken system...
...which these policies are bundled and sold as derivatives is suspiciously reminiscent of the way mortgage-backed securities were sold to investors. Upping the ante even more is a whole new set of ethical implications that comes with buying and selling life insurance policies on a wide market...
...Wall Street argues, albeit on weak ground, that the new model does in fact learn from the lessons of the last decade. In the mortgage-backed security market, subprime loans functioned as adversely selected “lemons,” and the mortgages most likely to fail were the ones most likely to compromise the integrity of the securitized assets. In this new market of life insurance securities, it is instead the healthy insurance candidates who are the liability. This time, to offer life insurance to the physically unhealthy—in other words, the “subprime?...